𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬,

HOOO BOY IM OVERWHELMED

In a good way! Thank you all for watching and for all the kind words and support. I was very much crying in my room this morning and feeling the love.

I especially wanna thank all of you here on tumblr! All your asks and questions and investment got ME more invested in my own characters. Like in a way I’ve never felt about my own characters.

But yeah there’s too many messages for me to get to so im probably gonna take a little break today but gaaaah I hope you enjoyed!! I’ll try to sporadically reply to stuff but my phone’s blowing up everywhere hahahaha

Also HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!! Our stories deserve to be heard and we should be able to exist in ANY genre. I hope this pilot shows that people wanna see Black magical girls and I hope to see more of it, even if im not the one to do it~

HELLO!! big fan of your animatics!! How do you make them and do you have any tips for inspiration, planning, and what software do you use?

Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

I think the realization that revolutionized the way I think about storyboarding the most is that you HAVE to let your imagination drive. I start off every animatic with super loose, super messy, barely legible sketches, with wrong anatomy, janky movement, etc. Instead of focusing on making it look good, I can just focus on setting it up for its potential, and starting my motivation at the highest point it can be. I never let my first draft take more than a few hours over the course of like 2 days max, or else the drive dissipates.

If I start a board right away with the cleanest, most beautiful art I can muster, I'll kill my own motivation, like "Oh god, in my head, I imagined a huge spinning 3D camera shot here, with a bunch of dancing characters. That last panel alone took me like 30 minutes to draw, I don't wanna do this! I'll draw a simpler, flatter scene instead." and then it ends up looking nothing like how I imagined, and I get demotivated before abandoning the project. But if I start with super messy lines, just barely enough to get the idea out onto a screen where I can watch it, the excitement and imagination will drive, like "Wow, this shot with a huge spinning 3D camera and all these complicated characters looks SO COOL! It's gonna take a lot of work, but look how interesting it looks already! I can't give up on this!"

For reference, this was puppet boy's first draft!

Storyboarding is a bit different from a lot of other visual art mediums because it takes a LOOOOT more work before it starts feeling rewarding. Learning to manage your own motivation is a huge part of building the skill that I feel a lot of people don't mention.

But when it comes to learning how to finalize it, study up on your storyboarding rules! Learn about perspective, anatomy, screen direction, and learn to draw FAST (that's a big one). Draw out shots from your favourite movies, study their composition and take note of their camera/character movement, and how it aligns with the shots sandwiching them. Learn from other artists (I recommend Toniko Pantoja, he's a very experienced board artist who makes a lot of videos abt improving your boards and what it's like to work in the industry), and PRACTISE! Your first piece of art, whenever you try anything new, is going to SUCK. You're gonna think its bad. That's just how art goes. But the next time you do it, you'll always, always, improve, even if just a little, even if you can't see it for yourself.

The biggest thing to keep telling yourself when making storyboards is DON'T GIVE UP YET. YOU'RE SO CLOSE TO MAKING SOMETHING COOL. And then you have to keep telling yourself that over, and over, and over, and over, through all the sighs, and the frustrated rage-quitting, and the exhausted temporary give-ups, and then eventually, those animatics you keep building in your head get to be real! And it feels incredible.

Port Link

A link for the premiere in 5 min, Thanks to everyone again!

my prediction didn’t come true :(

MORE CAMP CAMP LORE! The spooky Island Mansion's design was a direct reference to the Munster's House! One of my favorite TV families and one of the COOLEST creepy houses on the block. Weirdly enough the actual house exists in Waxahachie, Texas which is about a 2.5 hour drive away from where the Rooster Teeth studios used to be.

The Munster's was one of those formative shows for me AND a few members of the Team Team. My personal experience was watching marathons of it while home sick from school. It's one of THE MOST WHOLESOME goth family comedies right next to The Addam's Family

Update

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hey guys, if you saw the community post on the second channel, I’ll be going more in depth here—I’m not really in a good environment right now, I’m constantly under threat of being sent to live with my abusive mother again by my dad, and I’m constantly trapped in my household, I can’t go down the road without a chaperone or move out of state because to my dad it’s too *r slur*, he snapped my phone in half during an argument and pushed me down by my neck

Im so sorry if this is too much to say online, but I can’t go to the police or anything due to my dad, and the only option I really have is to suck it up and save up to attempt to go out of state, I can’t leave either due to my sister

I apologize to ask like this, but my art tablet is constantly taken away due to small arguments, and getting work done is next to impossible sometimes, but please if you can support in any way my kofi is the best way, as I want to keep a fund in my PayPal balance so I can buy a binder(hopefully)

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I made this for Brightgoat. He’s an amazing artist and he inspires me everyday.

IT'S TIME! The Far-Fetched Animated Pilot Kickstarter has officially LAUNCHED! To kick things off, here's a first look at our fully animated series opening!

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Coming soon: Far-Fetched: The Animated Pilot That Wouldn't Die

An animated horror comedy about a rock band of misfits filming a music video that’s so lame, monsters try to kill them.

desperately and cherishingly


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my last illustration piece that will be included in my cinnaphos art book, “in perpetuum”!! i hope to aim for preorder release in january 2021, please look forward to my updates soon!

My first animated Solaris. It took all day to do it, but it was worth it.